Phonies From Catcher In The Rye Quotes & Sayings

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it. — P.D. James

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window. — J.D. Salinger

In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations. — Cat Rambo

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content. — George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere along the line, I'll screw up and hurt you," he said. "Everybody does. But that's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is if you believe I would never do it on purpose - and if I believe the same of you. That's how you deal with stuff. — Erica Bauermeister

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. — Marian Wright Edelman

Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture. — Sophie Page

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that. — Ben Lewin

Lawyers are alright, I guess - but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't. — J.D. Salinger

After all is said and done, more is said than done. — Aesop

I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself. — Beth Revis

Throw away the rule book and create your own. — Sandra Bellamy